From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 08:48:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 08:48:37 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:62646 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 May 2002 08:48:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 14:48:20 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Ruth Ivimey-Cook Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , Andre Hedrick , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Martin Dalecki , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [patch] New driver for Artop [Acard] controllers. Message-ID: <20020526144820.A17158@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020526130547.A16548@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > >On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:07:36PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > >> Where do you get off delete copyrights? > >> GPL permits changing it does not give you the right to steal, lie, cheat, > >> defraud, other peoples work. However I should not expect anything of > >> honor from a person of your high morals. I know you want to rewrite the > >> past to make it so I and other never existed, but you are pathetic. > > > >I don't delete copyrights, where applicable. However, in this case, none > >of the original code stayed, not a single line - I first wrote a spec > >based on the old driver and then wrote a new driver from scratch based > >on that spec. So, you really don't have a copyright on the new Artop > >driver, sorry. > > Vojtech, > > It would be a lot better if you had acknowledged the prior input of the > original writers in the source; I accept that if you write a new driver you > are entitled to claim (C) on it, but to acknowledge the source of the > specification would have been much fairer to the others whose hard work you > have used. Yes, I agree. That's why there is: * Based on the work of: * Andre Hedrick in the new driver. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs